breadbasket

noun3

1. •
   A basket used for storing or carrying bread.
2. •
   A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.

   • [I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's. — 1990
3. •
   (humorous) The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.

   • Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!) — 1819